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Council Member Sandy Nurse thanks testimonies and acknowledges their impact

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Council Member Sandy Nurse expresses gratitude to those who shared their stories and acknowledges the difficulty in hearing about their experiences. She emphasizes that the situation is unacceptable and that families should have timely information about their incarcerated loved ones.

Nurse draws a parallel between notifying families of incarcerated individuals and notifying emergency contacts for council members or parents of schoolchildren.
She affirms that these testimonies have an impact on their legislative work.
Nurse mentions that other council members and the public advocate have joined the session.

Sandy Nurse

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Thank you all.

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I really appreciate you coming and sharing your your stories.

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I know that's hard.

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And it's hard to hear, you know, because this is unacceptable, and you shouldn't have to go through this.

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You should have timely information and communication about what's happening with your loved ones just as if somebody was a kid in school and something was happening at the school or or if any of us here on this side of the table, something happened to us, our emergency contacts will be contacted.

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So thank you for that, and it does have an impact on our work and how we're legislating.

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I wanna open it for any I know that we have council member wrestler who's joined us.

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I know the public advocates gonna make a statement shortly, but if there's I didn't wanna disrupt the flow.

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So if anybody any members have any questions

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